WD My Passport is an external hard drive that delivers excellent data storage and backup features. If you have created a backup for your files, you can retrieve the data if anything goes wrong. In case you don’t have the backup, you can recover the deleted files using the data recovery software such as Recoverit, EaseUS data recovery, and MiniTool data recovery.
For the detailed instructions about recovering the data from your WD My Passport external hard drive for free, go through the steps given below.
- First, ensure that the hard drive is connected properly to your computer.
- Next, download a standard data recovery software from the Internet. Some data recovery software requires a full subscription to get the most out of its features.
- Make sure that you download the software compatible with your OS.
- Once you have downloaded the software, go to the Downloads folder and double-click the setup file to run the installation.
- Once the installation is complete, launch the data recovery program to recover the data from your WD My Passport external hard drive for free.
- Choose your WD hard drive from the displayed list and click Next to proceed to the next step.
- Start scanning the hard drive using the data recovery software.
- The time consumption for scanning your WD My Passport hard drive depends upon the size of the lost data.
- Once the scan is complete, preview the files displayed on the screen.
- Choose the files you wish to recover and click the Recover button.
- Specify the location on your computer folder to save the files you are going to recover.
- Once the recovery process has been completed, go to the location you have saved the recovered files and check if you can access them.
- Finally, move the recovered data to your WD My Passport external hard drive.